Soon to be concentration camp stocks!

Of course he is. Fed with all that sweet sweet data from Xitter. So it will be a rascist Frankensteinian nightmare.

Yep, this will go down in the history books as an incredible feat of non-confrontative "silent" warfare by Putin against the entire West. If there are still history books in the future.

Nope, he stole that from Edison.

He's also much more senile this time. And they have plenty of experience with that from Reagan.

And actually has a really good, thought-out story.

Also they are all stark raving mad like the "late, great" Hannibal Lecter because he confuses asylum with insane asylum.

Yep, they have an ongoing drug and AIDS crisis, and lost a lot of people to Covid since they only had their own vaccine, refusing other ones, which only worked in about half the cases though and which people were very sceptical of since the anti-vaccine propaganda on social media started by Russian bots to weaken the West backfired since Russians believed it as well.

That's definitely the play. It's another power (and money-) grab by the super rich: https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/opinion/brexit-a-movement-for-the-super-rich-by-the-super-rich-159708/ So why not try the same thing a second time? Then it was mainly bankers, now its tech bros. In both cases they don't really care about destroying the economy of one country. If they can't squeeze any more money out of it, they just leave like the locusts they are. The US is a particularly juicy fruit for them, it might take them decades to fully turn it into Russia 2.0.

We found the cure for cancer! It's gold!

Anybody not filthy rich: ...

Sie haben wahrscheinlich noch keinen neuen Befehle aus Moskau, also schreiben sie halt in der Zwischenzeit einfach bei den Fascho-Kollegen ab. Denn sie sind nicht nur dumm und bösartig, sondern meist auch noch ziemlich faul.

Just one more department for efficiency and we will finally be efficient.

Bei der Gelegenheit auch als Voraussetzung für Geisteswissenschaften abschaffen. Mediziner und Juristen müssen nur Begriffe auswendig lernen, aber wenn man Germanistik studieren will, braucht man das große Latinum. Make it make sense.

It's 920 pages. Trump can barely read and gets bored after one page of security briefings. He will just rubberstamp everything as long as he gets told that people will love him for it / that he gets a lot of money out of it personally. He's incredibly lazy and also clearly in mental decline. Vance will be the actual guy doing the work, and he in turn will get his orders from Thiel, Musk and Putin (and other billionaires that buy themselves into the inner circle).

Also (without wanting to belittle your condition), if the choice is between autism and life in an iron lung, I'd take autism.

And in a lot of cases, the "IMs" were close family members and spouses. The alternative to refusing the job was either saying goodbye to any chances of promotion in their jobs in the best case scenario or being jailed themselves in the worst case. Many also accepted because they knew the Stasi would monitor their loved ones anyway, and this way they could at least control the information that was shared.

I was born in the GDR and while I was a small child when the wall came down, I watched a lot of documentaries and also my parents told me a lot of stories. My mother was also approached by the Stasi but she flat out refused. She didn't suffer any bad consequences (that she knows of), but she was also already military (as a secretary, not a soldier) while my father was a middle ranking officer.

Charlie Wilson's War is a pretty great movie about that, starring Tom Hanks, directed by Mike Nichols and written by Aaron Sorkin, although it's more of a political satire and plays it fast and loose with the historical details.

Last time they were led by a gay Nazi, who will Trump pick?

Stay tuned next week for my special "Self-sealing stem bolts! Menace - or danger? The answer will surprise you!"

"Wir lassen das einfach die Industrie selbst regeln, dass hat doch auch bisher super funktioniert."